TV/RADIO: SPRINGFIELD -- Among the items Gov. Rod Blagojevich cut from the state budget last week were $1.5 million for public radio and television statewide, and $1 million for the Illinois Channel, which carries CSPAN-like programming of state government and Supreme Court events, along with other public interest offerings. Attempting to find out what the cuts mean to those organizations. Heupel/evening/Illinois

PARK DISTRICT BUDGET WOES: Springfield Park District worried that governor has cut museum funding from off-track betting receipts. Locals get about $95,000 annually from this source, which is used to help support botanical gardens, carillon and zoo. Reynolds/Springfield/evening/Illinois

TEXT MESSAGING. Bradley University has introduced text messaging as a way to alert students to an emergency on campus. To get the alerts, students and staff have to register to be a part of the system. Western Illinois is also considering a new alert systems that would deliver phone calls to students and staff and possibly text messages. Universities are generally looking for new ways to alert students after the Virginia Tech tragedy — everyone remembers the e-mail alerts that sat unread in inboxes. Efforting comment from a student who signed up for the Bradley alerts. JELLICK/Peoria/evening/Illinois

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WHERE’S GREAT LAKES? Some residents of the Burlington, Iowa, area have been making the nearly 100-mile trip to the airport in Peoria since the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport lost its only commercial air service in March. Service to St. Louis returns Oct. 7, but airport manager Sharon Leeper is concerned about the return of passengers. Airports in Springfield, Decatur, Marion and Quincy are in the same dilemma nearly six months after the communities lost St. Louis service that traditionally had been one of the busiest connections from central and southern Illinois. Landis/Springfield/evening/Illinois

GOT JUICE? For the first time, Illinois sophomore quarterback Juice Williams' father sits in the stands to watch his son play college football, when Illinois opens the season against Missouri on Saturday. Stanley Williams missed last season serving one year in prison. While growing up, Juice leaned his older brother, Rashaad Haynes, who served as a surrogate father. SUPINIE. Art from Springfield State Journal-Register.

EDITORIAL: GONZALES: “I have lived the American Dream,” Alberto Gonzales said at his farewell. But despite a compelling personal story that had him rising from humble beginnings to become the nation's first Hispanic attorney general, his tenure was more like an American nightmare. On wire now/Editorials